HeyJaredThe Fighting Life
More or less weekly musings about whatever, man. Sometimes dovetailing with my long sports writing career focused on the world of professional fighting. Mostly other stuff, though.
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That time a handful of rich guys kinda caused the worst flood in American history (opens the original)
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There are a few authors whose work I will immediately purchase, no questions asked, the moment I hear they’ve dropped a new joint. That list of authors includes but is not limited to: Patrick DeWitt, Amy Hempel, Anthony Doerr, and Erik Larsen. But way up at the top is the big homie Jim Shepard, the finest living writer of short fiction, according to me.Shepard put out a new collection this year called “The Queen of Bad Influences.” It’s a series of short stories set in and around historical cata
The guy who wanted to live forever has decided he’ll settle for being able to dunk a basketball and I find this very funny but also fascinating (opens the original)
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You know that “don’t die” guy? The one who used to get infusions of his son’s blood as part of his goal to live forever? The one whose face looks weird in a way you can’t quite pinpoint but one glance and you know, instinctively, that something isn’t quite right? He’s recently admitted that maybe he went too far with the longevity thing and now he’s made perhaps the funniest pivot of all time.He’s not so focused on never dying anymore. Now he just wants to
A couple questions you need to answer before giving us your opinion on trans women in sports (opens the original)
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If you get any sports at all in your social media algorithm, by now you have probably seen the video of former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom getting kicked out of a WNBA game after a confrontation with one of the players on the court. That player’s name is Natasha Cloud, and she plays for the Chicago Sky, a coincidence that’s just confusing enough to create headlines like “Kanter Freedom ejected after confrontation with Sky’s Cloud.”Seems like Kanter Freedom came to this game solely to make a s
Here’s what I learned about the current state of college sports by deep-diving into one university’s athletic department (opens the original)
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A couple months ago I spent a chunk of the afternoon in a sparsely decorated office within the University of Montana’s athletic department, talking to a guy named Marcus Welnel. He played football for the Montana Grizzlies. He was a good linebacker and a good student. Now he holds a job that didn’t exist at the university back when he played, because it didn’t need to. “Chief Revenue Officer,” is the way it’s often phrased. General manager might be more apt. One of the big things Welnel does for
Summer is dead/refusing to die (opens the original)
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I’ll say one thing for those air quality maps on my phone’s weather app: They do accurately portray the apocalyptic feel of a bad smoke day. You wake up in the morning, look at that alarming shade of red covering the screen, and then you walk outside into a grimy particulate haze and you think yeah they pretty much nailed it.It’s not quite mid-August and it feels like summer sucks now. Gone is the fun let’s-fuck-off-and-play-in-the-river vibe. Now it just feels like I’m waiting for my kids’ scho
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